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Spotify is introducing a new "Now Playing View" sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player to go along with the recently released "Your Library" sidebar. The Now Playing View in the right sidebar shows the album art and info of the current song or pod...
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Spotify is introducing a new Your Library sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player. The new Your Library sidebar is rolling out to all desktop users now, so you will be seeing it soon if you haven't already. The new Your Library sidebar improves nav...
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Hey! There has been an update to the Spotify Linux client signatures.Users may see errors linked to missing keys and failed signature verifications for Spotify when updating the system. If this happens to you, this can be fixed by manually adding the...
Having trouble with Spotify on your Desktop app? Here’s what to try first. Search the Community Someone might have asked your question on the Community before.So type your issue into the search box and have a look. Basic troubleshooting Go through th...
I started a station on a composer, then spent time "improving" it with thumbs up and thumbs down. But it still is named by the composer (with his picture) and no way to tell that is is customized. I have found no way of naming the station. Like, say ...
Whenever I go to a network with both ipv4 and ipv6, and try to access Spotify from Firefox on Ubuntu Linux (play.spotify.com), I get this message after a short while (1-3 mintes): "Can't connect to Spotify. Trying again now..." If I go to a network t...
Hey dear all, Since I have updated Mozilla Firefox (a week ago), there are problems with the Webplayer. Everytime I log in, I can start only one song (if I hurry up) and then it says "Can not connect to Spotify. Trying again now." and shows a never s...
Both the web player and my PS4 app keeps cutting out or stuttering every couple of minutes. Sometimes it gives up after 20sec or so and skips to the next song. My iPhone app works without any issues. I've had this issue occur consistently on three di...
I have my account spotify if i login togin to the website it works fine but if i go to the spotify player program doesn't login, I use ubuntu Help me please
Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible or not to remote control via spotify connect the linux client to a linux client?I can remote control via android and ipad the linux client to play songs.But I can not find any options in the linux client to remo...
The client I'm referring to is the Linux one. I've been using it for more than a year, this accident having happened roughly around the beginnings when - for some try-it-out or clean up reason, I guess - I deleted some of the left sidebar entries. As...
After the latest update on Linux (version 0.9.10.17) every played song creates a desktop notification, which on KDE results into a distracting background popup on the systray and an entry in the notification list.I might be weird but that defeats the...
Spotify Connect used to be available in the linux client (I'm running Ubuntu 14.04) but seems to have been removed after a recent update. Is there any news on if it's coming back or how to reenable? Although it was flaky it did work most of the time ...
I accidentaly followed someone and now there's no way to unfollow this user, even selecting "unfollow" option, it disappers, but after 5 minuts it appears againg. Quite annoying. Please help! Thanks
I've had spotify for about 9 months or so now, and i keep experiencing some very annoying bugs/errors. My first problem is at random times for no reason spotify will completely freeze my gui. Ive got to my tty terminal and "sudo killall spotify" in o...
Disregard, I solved the issue.
So I'm having problem getting Spotify to connect to my other devices, like my Iphone and MBP. Not sure why, but it just says that I'm using Spotify elsewhere and that it's paused on my Linux PC. (Note, I'm playing spotify on my MBP atm!)Running lates...
I just did a clean install of the Linux desktop client on an Ubuntu 12.04LTS system and it's mostly working. I did have to deal with the "libudev.so.1" incorrect linkage, but I found some postings describing a "ln -s" hack to make that work. The prob...
Hi, I'm on ubuntu 14.04LTS i use spotify webplayer on mozilla firefox and i have troubleshooting with this message EVERYTIMECan't connect to Spotify. Trying again now..." I clear the cache i delete history but nothing to do always this message i can'...
Hey ! I'm trying to write a small Python script that checks whether Spotify is running, playing, and if it is, returns some metadata about the track that is being played. For that, I'm using the MPRIS interface. I have no problem getting the metadata...
I just signed on as a Premium user, and am using the stand alone player app. Call me an idiot (go ahead; you wouldn't be the first) but I can't seem to find out how to get lyrics while music is playing. I've attached a screenshot showing the empty ho...
Hey there, I haven't ound this exact problem while searching the forum. I'm using ubuntu 15.10 and the testing version of ubuntu (since the stable doesn't seem to work for known issues). I am missing the ubuntu menu whithin the sound tray icon. Is th...
I just downloaded the app for linux and now when I go to log in I get a login failed message saying that my password/login name is incorrect. I can log into the website using the exact same login in info and password but for some reason the app is te...
Hi allI've recently upgraded to premium on the £0.99 offer which I assume offers high quality streaming fromt he web player(On Linux). I can't see this option anywhere in the settings, so is it automatically set to 320kbps by default for premium? I s...